InnovAntennas America Announces North American Availability of OWL-G/T Yagi

InnovAntennas America Announces North American
Availability of The World’s Highest Performing VHF Yagis by
Boom Length: The OWL G/T - Optimized Wideband Low impedance
High Gain Yagi Antennas

Seaside, Oregon, October 16, 2014: At the recent Pacific Northwest VHF Conference,
InnovAntennas America’s Chip Margelli, K7JA announced the North American
availability of a new line of ultra-high performance VHF Yagis produced by its affiliated
company InnovAntennas Ltd. (UK). Branded “Optimized Wideband Low-impedance Yagi
G/T” and known more concisely as “OWL G/T.”



4 x 9 element 144 MHz OWL G/T array installed at K7BV.

OWL G/T antennas are optimized for weak signal VHF applications including EME
(moonbounce), meteor-scatter and other demanding modes; applications where both
antenna gain and control of side and rear lobes are critical, hence the ‘G/T’ model suffix.

G/T is a common figure of merit for antenna performance used for moonbounce work. G is
the antenna gain in dB at the design frequency, and T is the equivalent noise
temperature of the antenna in ºK. Justin Johnson, G0KSC designed the OWL G/T models
with very high gain, along with carefully-controlled side- and rear-lobe levels, to achieve
results best suited for the mid-VHF frequencies, in particular 2 meters. The OWL-G/T
models boast the highest gain per foot of boom and, consequently, class-leading G/T
figures.

All OWL G/T antennas marry a high gain, low-impedance Yagi design with a folded dipole
wide-bandwidth feeder cell which yields a direct 50-Ohm impedance and with an overall
design objective of making these beams perfect for stacking. The though-the-boom
element construction utilizes elements electrically connected to the boom to reduce eddy
currents; what's more, they're very light in weight, important when building a multiantenna
array. The light weight of the OWL-G/T Yagis also makes them ideal for rover and
DXpedition deployment.

You get more gain and better G/T for EME work per unit of boom length with these
antennas than with any other VHF beam, notes InnovAntennas America/Force 12's Chip
Margelli, K7JA. These new designs will bring a new generation of moonbounce andThese new designs will bring a new generation of moonbounce and
portable operators onto the VHF bands and motivate veteran weak signal operators to
upgrade their antenna systems. Also, we think OWL G/T pricing will pleasantly surprise
hams.

The new OWL G/T product line is available now in North America via the Force 12 Superstore (www.Force12inc.com) and InnovAntennas
America (www.InnovAntennas.us). Overseas customers can order from InnovAntennas.com.

InnovAntennas OWL G/T Models:

Model Free-Space Gain Boom Length Weight
144-OWL-7-GT 13.0 dBi 10' 3.7 lbs.
144-OWL-8-GT 14.0 dBi 13'5” 6.1 lbs.
144-OWL-9-GT 14.74 dBi 14'5" 8.5 lbs.
144-OWL-10-GT 15.25 dBi 19'2" 9.0 lbs.

More 144 MHz OWL G/T models are coming soon!

About InnovAntennas, Ltd.: Justin Johnson, G0KSC, launched Canvey, England-based
InnovAntennas, Ltd. in 2011 after his antenna designing hobby led to a flood of requests
to “please build one for me” from amateur radio operators who recognized that Johnson’s
designs outperformed anything they could buy from a store. Johnson’s world famous
antennas, which include the LFA – Loop Fed Array, OP-DES, LFA-Q, LFA-R and many other
design breakthroughs, are available at www.InnovAntennas.com, www.InnovAntennas.us
and via a worldwide dealer network including the Force 12 Superstore – www.in North
America.


About Force 12: Force 12 was founded in the early ‘90s and has sold tens of thousands of
their innovative antenna designs including the XR, C, Delta, Magnum, Sigma and SVDA
Series and low profile “LPT” towers. In 2013 Force 12 was purchased by RF Acquisitions
International of Grand Junction, Colorado, and is affiliated with InnovAntennas, Ltd.
The Force 12 Superstore – www.Force12inc.com - features a complete selection of Force
12’s own products along with AlfaSpid rotators, the 4O3A Signature line of triplexers, filters
and station automation, low noise VHF and UHF preamps from SSB Electronic, rotator and
coax cable and other accessories. The Force 12 Superstore also stocks the famous
InnovAntennas antennas, power splitters, H-Frames and other products designed by Justin
Johnson, G0KSC.